Warfare has been a rich source of technological innovation as long as humans have roamed the Earth. It isn鈥檛 much of a surprise then that from early electronic analog and digital computers, to integrated circuits, and programming languages, electronics and computing have been developed in concert with military needs.
Sometimes, we can look back at fictional items from the days before the computer and see threads to machines that would exist decades, or even centuries later. When the museum opened Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing, a visitor pointed out that we didn鈥檛 mention what they considered to be the earliest descr
November 15th marks Guinness World Records Day, a day when Guinness challenges the world at large to break as many records as possible within a 24-hour period. In honor of Guinness鈥檚 Day, here are 10 amazing Guinness World Records related to computer history.
鈥淵es, we buy cattle with M-Pesa on our mobile phones. It is far more secure than carrying cash.鈥滸eorge is sitting on a folding stool and wearing his tribe鈥檚 full traditional dress, a mix of loosely wrapped bright red and purple and pink plaids 鈥� as well as fluorescent beaded jewelry 鈥� that can make the Day-Glo acid col
The year 2012 marks another step in a familiar quadrennial cycle. A cycle culminating in an event that demands global attention and that has people in awe of the amount of effort and money spent to ensure that the competitors reach their peak with meticulous timing. I am not talking about the 2012 Summer Olympic Games
If you have ever played games on a computer or a console system, you have probably played at least one Blizzard game. In fact, at least 10 million people were subscribed to World of Warcraft as of October 4th, 2012. Blizzard continually produces some of the best selling and most critically acclaimed games in the indust
Every city has one: a house that scares all the local kids. Sometimes, these houses have long, dark histories that seem to have been created by horror authors in the distant, misty past. Other times, it鈥檚 merely their long-standing dereliction that lets the mind wonder what sort of evil dwells within. These creaky, cre
In the course of my work managing 91自拍鈥檚 collections, I often hear people use the terms preservation, conservation, and restoration synonymously. In everyday use, that鈥檚 fine. However, these terms actually mean something quite different inside the walls of a museum.
From the Collection
Before moving up a couple of exits on Highway 101N, to our current location at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd., 91自拍 and part of its collection were housed in a WWII-era Quonset hut at Moffett Field.